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  2. Jian (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Yin Jian (born 1978) is a double Olympic medal winning Chinese sailor. Yin Jian (Communist leader), early member of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks (1904–1937) Yu Jian (born 1954), Chinese poet, writer and documentary film director; Zhan Jian (born 1982), Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player; Zhang Jian ...

  3. Jian - Wikipedia

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    The jian (Mandarin Chinese:, Chinese: 劍, English approximation: / dʒ j ɛ n / jyehn, Cantonese:) is a double-edged straight sword used during the last 2,500 years in China. The first Chinese sources that mention the jian date to the 7th century BCE, during the Spring and Autumn period, [1] one of the earliest specimens being the Sword of Goujian.

  4. Chinese sword - Wikipedia

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    The jian is a double-edged straight sword used in China for the last 2,500 years. The first Chinese sources that mention the jian date to the 7th century BC during the Spring and Autumn period; [47] one of the earliest specimens being the Sword of Goujian.

  5. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    A character with only one meaning is a monosemous character, and a character with two or more meanings is a polysemous character. According to statistics from the "Chinese Character Information Dictionary", among the 7,785 mainland standard Chinese characters in the dictionary, there are 4,139 monosemous characters and 3,053 polysemous characters.

  6. Chinese given name - Wikipedia

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    It is also common to split modern Chinese words – which now usually consist of two characters of similar meaning both to each other and the full word – among a pair of children, such as Jiankang (健康, "healthy") appearing in the children's names as -jian (健, "strong") and -kang (康, "healthy").

  7. Review: Reimagined Chinese legends power the visual marvel ...

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    A new cinematic universe - built of old legends - bursts with creativity in the gorgeously animated "New Gods: Yang Jian."

  8. List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    The list also offers a table of correspondences between 2,546 Simplified Chinese characters and 2,574 Traditional Chinese characters, along with other selected variant forms. This table replaced all previous related standards, and provides the authoritative list of characters and glyph shapes for Simplified Chinese in China. The Table ...

  9. Peng (surname) - Wikipedia

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    The character (彭) is composed of 壴 (zhǔ meaning "drum") and a pictograph (shān representing "beats"). More commonly used as a surname , this character is also an adjective, meaning "big". [ 1 ]